Tidal
Welcoming The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice Rt Hon. Alex Chalk KC MP
We were delighted to welcome Cheltenham’s Member of Parliament, The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Rt Hon Alex Chalk KC MP with our Public Hearts Key Partners Tidal Training Ltd, Spirax Sarco, Evans Jones and Circle2Success to share progress and plans
We discussed the need for publicly accessible defibs as public health infrastructure to support the increasing number of out of hospital cardiac arrests, which is currently around 35,000 in the UK each year; the postive impacts of our our communities and the difference they have made throughout the course of their journey already,; the importance of The Circuit and being an active Guardian to ensure they remain in service, maintained and emergency ready. Alex is impressed by the installation of 72 defibrillators, including a staggering 30 new ones in 2023.
He is also keen to raise awareness of our new cardiac screening program, which will be truly transformational and life-saving in Cheltenham – and then kindly went on to share his thoughts and reflections on social media:
Public Hearts is a community not-for-profit campaign who have installed 71 publicly accessible defibrillators in and around Cheltenham since 2018. That’s about £200,000-worth of investment, and makes our town better covered than probably anywhere else in the South-West.
And before you ask – yes, they’re being used!! The data shows that this kit has already *saved lives*.